Bird-Meertens Formalism

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The Bird-Meertens Formalism is a calculus for deriving programs from specifications (in a functional-programming setting), devised by Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens.

It is sometimes facetiously known as the squiggol, because of the "squiggly" symbols it uses. A less-used variant name, but actually the first one suggested, is SQUIGOL.

[edit] See also

• Catamorphism
• Anamorphism
• Paramorphism
• Hylomorphism

[edit] References

• Bird, Richard S.; Oege de Moor (1997). Algebra of Programming, International Series in Computing Science, Vol. 100. Prentice Hall. 

[edit] External links

• Bird Meertens Formalism on the Program Transformation Wiki